Table of Contents

Introduction

Conserving Nations
Conserving Nature
Eating our Friends
Dying Quietly
Meaningful Marriage
Extinguishing the Light
Religion and Enlightenment
The Totalitarian Temptation
Newspeak and Eurospeak
The Nature of Evil
Eliot and Conservatism

Acknowledgements
Name Index
Subject Index

Promotional Information

In this timely new edition of his classic book A Political Philosophy, celebrated conservative philosopher Roger Scruton interrogates contemporary values, virtues and morality.

About the Author

Sir Roger Scruton is widely seen as one of the greatest conservative thinkers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and a polymath who wrote a wide array of fiction, non-fiction and reviews. He was the author of over fifty books. A graduate of Jesus College, Cambridge, Scruton was Professor of Aesthetics at Birkbeck College, London and a visiting professor at Oxford University. Scruton died in January 2020.

Reviews

An intelllectual challenge and an entertaining read.
*Richard Hayton, Political Studies Review*

What may be found here is a collection of acute observations about modern attitudes, arguments undermining their essential assumptions, and references to the past which enable the reader to set moral and intellectual enquiry into a wide frame of reference. The essays are certainly polemical, and are clearly intended to be; they are, however, elevated above the trivial rhetoric of modern politics, and achieve a distinction that is at once apparent and readily accessible. His essays are prophetic assaults upon the superficial and false understandings inherent in the substitute morality now mandatory in modern materialist thought...there remains intellectual engagement of a high order.
*Church Times*